NEW Mini Crossword today: puzzle answers for Saturday, December 21

Do you love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily paper? That’s what Mini is for!

A mini version of the New York Times’ famous crossword puzzle, The Mini is a quick and easy way to test your crossword skills daily in much less time (the average puzzle takes most players just over a minute to solve). Although the Mini is smaller and simpler than a normal crossword, it’s not always easy. Stumbling on one clue can be the difference between a personal best completion time and an embarrassing solution attempt.

Like our Wordle tips and Connections tips, we’re here to help with The Mini today if you’re stuck and need a little help.

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Below are the answers to today’s NEW Mini Crossword.

NEW Mini Crossword answers today

Over

• Zap with a beam of light – LASE
• ___ solstice, the shortest day of the year – WINTER
• 100 years – CENTURY
• 100 years, for Jimmy Carter – AGE
• Roll with it! – DIE
• Sports beginners – ROOKIES
• Like every day compared to the day before, for the next six months – LONG
• Eugene V. ___, five-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America – DEBS

Down

• First blank on a form, maybe – LINEONE
• Unwanted crawler on a kitchen table – QTY
• Preparing for a test – STUDIES
• More creepy – HONORERS
• “Everything cool between us?” – WEGOOD
• Some bread … or a homophone for what they’re doing in the oven – RYE
• Astronomer Sagan, whose papers are archived in the Library of Congress – CARL
• Spy org. in “Bridge of Spies” – KGB